.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 348 219
Rank change year-on-year +81 -129 -68
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 740 306 793
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.72% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.90% 4.18% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 676 277 556
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,625 £108,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,719 7,319 14,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.29% 17.12% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,703 4,834 8,671
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +98 193 £57,500 - 47
North of England +44 179 £55,000 - 38
East of England +53 105 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Midlands +32 102 £55,000 -8.33% 8
London -110 89 £77,500 +3.33% 82
North East -6 73 £65,000 +33.33% 11
South West -31 73 £52,500 - 5
North West -8 67 £55,000 -8.33% 20
West Midlands +7 60 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East Midlands +5 42 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire -8 39 £47,500 -20.83% 8
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.76%) IIS
3 11 (1.49%) CMS
4 7 (0.95%) Confluence
4 7 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.54%) Kentico
5 4 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.41%) DNN
6 3 (0.41%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.41%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 605 (81.76%) Azure
2 214 (28.92%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (20.41%) GitHub
4 136 (18.38%) AWS
5 135 (18.24%) GitHub Copilot
6 130 (17.57%) Azure AI
7 71 (9.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 32 (4.32%) Power Platform
9 31 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 27 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 26 (3.51%) Power Automate
12 24 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (2.97%) PowerApps
13 22 (2.97%) Serverless
14 21 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
15 17 (2.30%) Google Play
16 16 (2.16%) SaaS
17 13 (1.76%) Azure Functions
18 12 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
19 11 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.35%) Internet
2 7 (0.95%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) 5G
5 1 (0.14%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (57.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 362 (48.92%) MongoDB
3 152 (20.54%) Elasticsearch
4 130 (17.57%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 25 (3.38%) Power BI
7 21 (2.84%) MySQL
8 17 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.62%) Redis
10 11 (1.49%) NonStop SQL
11 10 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.08%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.95%) GIS
15 3 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.41%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.27%) MariaDB
17 1 (0.14%) HBase
Development Applications
1 71 (9.59%) Git
2 17 (2.30%) NUnit
3 14 (1.89%) JIRA
3 14 (1.89%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.35%) GitLab
5 9 (1.22%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.95%) MSI
7 6 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.68%) Postman
8 5 (0.68%) Snyk
9 3 (0.41%) JUnit
9 3 (0.41%) Selenium
9 3 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 100 (13.51%) Finance
2 75 (10.14%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.30%) Advertising
4 42 (5.68%) Games
5 38 (5.14%) Marketing
6 33 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (3.92%) Retail
8 24 (3.24%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.57%) Law
10 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.49%) Music Industry
12 9 (1.22%) Banking
13 8 (1.08%) Legal
14 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.68%) Local Government
15 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.54%) Back Office
16 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 625 (84.46%) Developer
2 523 (70.68%) .NET Developer
3 95 (12.84%) Senior
4 68 (9.19%) Senior Developer
5 62 (8.38%) Software Developer
6 60 (8.11%) C# Developer
7 47 (6.35%) Lead
8 45 (6.08%) C# .NET Developer
9 38 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (5.14%) Software Engineer
10 30 (4.05%) Lead Developer
10 30 (4.05%) Senior .NET Developer
11 29 (3.92%) Senior C# Developer
12 22 (2.97%) .NET Software Developer
12 22 (2.97%) Senior Software Developer
13 21 (2.84%) Lead .NET Developer
14 20 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (2.43%) .NET Developer - Fintech
16 17 (2.30%) .NET Software Engineer
16 17 (2.30%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 740 (100.00%) .NET
2 492 (66.49%) ASP.NET
3 435 (58.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 228 (30.81%) CSS
5 226 (30.54%) HTML
6 220 (29.73%) Entity Framework
7 208 (28.11%) React
8 207 (27.97%) Blazor
9 195 (26.35%) AngularJS
10 178 (24.05%) RESTful
11 168 (22.70%) ASP.NET Web API
12 161 (21.76%) Vue
13 153 (20.68%) Node.js
14 140 (18.92%) .NET Framework
15 127 (17.16%) ML.NET
16 107 (14.46%) LINQ
17 77 (10.41%) REST
18 42 (5.68%) JSON
19 32 (4.32%) WPF
20 27 (3.65%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.57%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.43%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.30%) iPhone
8 14 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.35%) BBC
10 10 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.35%) Social Media
10 10 (1.35%) Social Network
10 10 (1.35%) Sports Betting
11 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.95%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (0.95%) Tandem
12 6 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.11%) Windows
2 17 (2.30%) Android
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (67.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 393 (53.11%) Agile
3 269 (36.35%) CI/CD
4 254 (34.32%) DevOps
5 212 (28.65%) Microservices
6 165 (22.30%) AI
7 137 (18.51%) Multithreading
8 136 (18.38%) Machine Learning
9 100 (13.51%) Scrum
10 93 (12.57%) Software Engineering
11 80 (10.81%) TDD
12 79 (10.68%) OO
13 66 (8.92%) BDD
14 62 (8.38%) Kanban
15 59 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (7.70%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 57 (7.70%) Mentoring
17 47 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (6.35%) SDLC
18 46 (6.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 690 (93.24%) C#
2 487 (65.81%) SQL
3 251 (33.92%) JavaScript
4 192 (25.95%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.38%) Python
6 16 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.76%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.62%) Java
9 10 (1.35%) VBA
10 9 (1.22%) Bicep
11 4 (0.54%) Bash
11 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.54%) Ruby
12 3 (0.41%) Go
12 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.41%) VBScript
13 2 (0.27%) C
13 2 (0.27%) Dart
14 1 (0.14%) Delphi
14 1 (0.14%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 59 (7.97%) Degree
2 28 (3.78%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.78%) Security Cleared
3 21 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.41%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.41%) OCP
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.19%) QA
2 24 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.95%) NCSC
3 7 (0.95%) WCAG
4 4 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.41%) GDPR
5 3 (0.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
System Software
1 185 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 164 (22.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.41%) Ansible
2 3 (0.41%) Grafana
2 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 495 (66.89%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.76%) Facebook
3 44 (5.95%) Google
4 21 (2.84%) YouTube
5 10 (1.35%) Apple
5 10 (1.35%) Sony
5 10 (1.35%) Yahoo!
6 9 (1.22%) Adobe
7 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.54%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.54%) Splunk
10 3 (0.41%) Alterian
10 3 (0.41%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.27%) IFS
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle
11 2 (0.27%) Sage
11 2 (0.27%) Veracode